{"id":4752,"date":"2011-12-16T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2011-12-17T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:02:55","slug":"but-would-they-vote-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4752","title":{"rendered":"But would they vote for Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/dearabby\/\">Dear Abby<\/a> caught my attention today;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DEAR ABBY: I have had the same group of friends for 20 years. They are an affluent group &#8212; doctors, lawyers, etc. &#8212; and very social. My best friend got wind of the fact that I had gone out with an African-American man. She confronted me, told me we could no longer be friends and then kicked me out of her house. If I call her, she hangs up on me.<\/p>\n<p>We had a loving, longtime friendship. It has been five months now and no one has called. I am sad and shocked. I always thought of her as my best friend, and my other friends who were also dear to me are shunning me as well. What should I do? &#8212; OUTCAST IN THE SOUTH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m rooting for &#8220;The Help&#8221; to win the Oscar for best picture. <\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. That&#8217;s a little like rooting for the Swedes to give Barack the Nobel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter to Dear Abby caught my attention today; DEAR ABBY: I have had the same group of friends for 20 years. They are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}